Hank: by 2020 there will be cures for almost every illness and people will be 200 years old (1990)
prediction · status: proved wrong · last event: proved wrong (2021-01-01) · owner: Hank
In a 1990 essay, ten-year-old Hank predicted that by 2020 there would be cures for almost every illness and people would live to 200. Reading it in 2021, he noted the math could not work.
Origin known from later mentions
1990 in the title is when this began; it first appears in the videos read here in 2021, so the earlier part is known only from what is said later.
About: life extension
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-01 | proved wrong | The essay predicts cures for almost every illness and 200-year-old people; Hank notes the math fails, since the oldest person in 1990 could only be 140 in 2020. (playful) | In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are 00:00:29 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2021-01-01 · In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are — Hank: The essay also predicts aliens bringing new technology to Earth and ways to revive the dead, which turns out to mean no more extinct animals. (playful) — 00:00:58
- 2021-01-01 · In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are — Hank says we have actually, kind of, figured out a little bit of de-extinction work. (hedged) — 00:00:58